Glycobiology - a sweet science coming of age

 

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Dutch Society for Glycobiology at the Trippenhuis on September 17, 2009

 

9:30-10:00 registration & coffee

10:00-10:15 Opening by Irma van Die (president of the Dutch Society for Glycobiology)

10:15-10:50 Jaak Jaeken (Leuven, Belgium) Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation: Between basic glycobiology and disease

 10:50-11:25 Eric Samain (Grenoble, France) Glyco-engineering of oligosaccharides  

11:25-12:00 Alma Nauta (Utrecht, the Netherlands) Glycobiology for the development of anti-allergics

LUNCH

13:00-13:35 Mihai Netea (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)Glycosylation in infection and immunity

13:35-14:10 Daan van Aalten (Dundee, Scotland)Glycobiology of cytoplasmic glycosylation

14:10-14:45 Rita-Gerardy-Schahn (Hannover, Germany)Sialic acid glycobiology in neurological disease

15:00-16:30 Posters, drinks and get together

Organized by Dirk Lefeber, Boris Tefsen and Sander van Leeuwen

 

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